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Find cheap flights from Sydney to the Maldives from $382

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Malé2 stops$993

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Low season

December

High season

May

Cheapest flight

$382
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 57% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 22% lower on average.
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FAQs - booking Maldives flights

  • What cultural customs should I be aware of when travelling to the Maldives?

    When travelling, respecting other people's traditions and considering their respective religious practises is crucial. There are things to be mindful of when visiting the Maldives because it is an Islamic country. For instance, it is not permitted to carry alcohol into the Maldives. Other items to be aware of include the prohibition on eating pork, you cannot have any sacred objects or books of religion with you, and only married couples are permitted to purchase contraceptives.

  • Do I need a visa to travel to the Maldives from Sydney Airport?

    Australian nationals do not need a visa in order to visit the Maldives; a 30-day tourist visa will be given to you at the airport. You must also meet the entrance criteria when you visit. These include a current passport that is valid for at least six months, enough money to cover your expenses, reserved lodging, and a return flight home.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Sydney to the Maldives?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from Sydney to the Maldives.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Sydney to the Maldives?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to the Maldives from Sydney is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Sydney to the Maldives?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional return ticket. You could then fly to the Maldives with an airline and back to Sydney with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Sydney to the Maldives?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to the Maldives from Sydney up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

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Top tips for finding cheap flights to the Maldives

  • Morning departure is around 8% cheaper than an evening flight, on average*.
  • The flight from Sydney to the Maldives is long, with at least one stopover. If you have an early morning flight, you could stay overnight at a hotel in Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport (SYD), also known as Sydney Airport. Flights to the Maldives leave from Terminal 1. The most convenient hotel is located inside T1, the Aerotel. Other establishments in Terminals 2 and 3 include the Rydges Hotel, Mantra Sydney Airport, and Ibis budget Sydney Airport.
  • Need to charge your phone? There are complimentary charging stations in the International Arrivals Terminal at Male International Airport (MLE). You can find them around Gates 1, 2, and 3, the duty-free area, the pier bridge, and the concourse.
  • The time zone in the Maldives is MTV, which is 30 minutes behind Indian Standard Time. When you go to your resort, there can be a time difference, though. This is due to the resorts extending the daytime hours by 1 hour to 1h 30min on their clocks. So that you can plan your timetable for your return travel, keep this in mind.
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*Average of the lowest prices shown in KAYAK’s search results for departures within the next 30 days

Top 5 airlines serving from Sydney to the Maldives

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Sydney to the Maldives? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
8.2
Singapore AirlinesOverall score based on 1465 reviews
8.1Comfort
8.4Boarding
7.8Food
8.7Crew
8.2Entertainment
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Good flight. The food was served a bit late, hence a hurry to finish before landing. Excellent crew and service

10.0 ExcellentYM, Apr 2024MEL - SIN
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Good flight. The food was served a bit late, hence a hurry to finish before landing. Excellent crew and service

I commend the flight attendants on our SFO-SIN flight who went above and beyond to provide us with extra snacks and food. This type of service makes the flight experience personal and awesome.

It was a great flight Food was great Crew was spectacular

Cabin Crew always friendly and helpful. Seating cramped - foul smelling from toilets, high risk of disease. Guard personal property such as expensive sunglasses Coffee always awful and cold Meal trays toddler sized Not worth the extra cost to fly SQ - use a budget airline, same if not better experience

Seating cramped; close to toilet, foul smelling and noisy, very unhygienic and disease risk Free and paid Wi-Fi NOT accessible at all - misleading advertising Very expensive sunglasses disappeared from back seat pouch. Coffee disgusting and cold

When boarding, after business class should be premium economy, but economy class already lined-up at the gate blocking premium economy to board. Singapore airline crew should done a better job to organize this chaos :( Thank you.

It seems paying premium economy does not make difference with economy. No priority boarding, not worthy paying extra$$$ for premium economy.

Wonderful service, planes and interior in great condition, very pleasant experience

The premium economy seats were not that great. It could have been more premium than economy seats.

Flying with Singapore airlines is always excelllent - the crew are lovely and the food too is great. It’s my number 1 airline

Same problem with very poor food. Gluten free options can taste great, there is not reason to be give suboptimal meals in this situation.

Flight from Dubai to Zagreb very bad cabin crew. Bad food

This airline is one of the best Ihave travel around the world well use them again in the future the food was higher quality plus your personal aboard communicated in many languages on our flights 13 this was amazing 👏 🤩 😀 👌 😄 thank you

More leg room and comfortable seats at least for long flights

Superb experience. I hope they bring back the fast track option at Heathrow immigration.

Check-in counter at the airport took more than an hour of standing in queue with online checkin. And after entering the gate the flight delayed more than 30 mins.

Lovely experience. I feel like travelling in Emirates.. The flights are always superb.Vegan food served was really good..

Quality and tasty Food and service, bigger seat comfort and leg room, etc.

Crew in Hyderabad could have been more helpful they were only focused on ripping customers.

On both legs of my trips (Jhb - Dxb and Dxb - Jhb) the entertainment system did not work.

Very good crew, very efficient. Unfortunately not all items listed in duty free catalog were available.

Many changes need to be addressed from airport check in to flight departure. If they observe other major airlines, then they can expect what Sri Lankan airlines need to update their procedures.

Very professional and well managed. On time, great staff and comfortable.

Smooth takeoff and landing. Best service experience in all our travels over the years. Caring and attentive crew. Loved our flight to and fro.

not looking like a national flag carrier.. both the ground team and flight team are far from being kind and helpful. Not sure what's wrong.

Kayak company fake total I m not travel my payment reverse plzzz my credit card

I m not good serves poor serves I m m fake company kayak ok plzz my help my ticket cancel my tripe ok

Terrible experience. Unexpected wait due to staff delay was not taken proper care. Food inflight could be better where as flight attendees on flight hospitality was 100%

Aircraft used fir this route was pretty old. Seats 💺 were hard & difficult to reclaim although it was flat bed

Because of the bubble agreement b/w India and Srilanka, I was not allowed to board the flight to Columbo. My experience about airport representatives was good. They were through in their job and saved my family from getting stuck in Columbo (as I would not be able to fly to Doha because of bubble agreement). So by their prompt attention, such a catastrophe was avoided. For this reason, even without flying with them, I would rate them 7/10.

For the price we paid, we had a really good flight. The seats and bed (business class) was extremely comfortable. I have no complaints. The crew were very attentive and helpful. They spoke English and there were no misunderstanding although their English wasn’t perfect or fluent. You will never go hungry as there was ample food and drinks but their food for mediocre. The entertainment was limited to older movies and the wifi didn’t allow you to access some Social media. Apart from the above, it was a very pleasant flight. Would highly recommend them.

Cheapest option from Gatwick £400 cheaper than Emirates and Qatar. Entertainment no where near as good as Emirates and Qatar, but saved £400 so all good.

Gatwick London-Shanghai -Bangkok.. Would have liked entertainment screens, but I know these planes are not that new. Cheap flights at the time of booking, Emirates wanted double so you get what you paid for. I would fly again with them, but if Emirates was the same price I would go with them.

How do you run out of beer after one hour of a twelve hour flight?!

Flight was fine, however we were not able to check in online, this adds to travel stress. Luckily check-in at Heathrow was quick, but we did not get the seats we paid extra for. We paid for a window and 2 aisle seats from Shanghai to Tokyo leg, but they changed us to middle seats. Not good :(

It was my birthday while I was on the flight on China eastern airlines. They celebrated my day by giving me a personalized birthday card and also a very delicious pastry. I was surprised and thankful by the China Eastern crew! The whole staff was kind and professional? My second flight into China and the most memorable! Thank you-

Pros: "The flight was smooth. Food was on time . Wine is available for the anxious flyers who can’t sleep."
Cons: "Better softer hand soap , sprays and lotion . Sleep mask"
Cons: "delay of about 1 hour, we almost missed our international flight from beigin"
Pros: "It was a terrible, long and very crowded flight."
Cons: "The people/passengers. The whole flight felt like a budget airline. I am not looking forward to the return."
Pros: "Dated entertainment on the inside televisions and some of the headphones and movies were hard to understand because of the audio quality. But the bottom line was I couldn’t find a cheaper flight for my trip and overall I look for savings and my airfare."
Cons: "Customer service from the flight crew was pretty dry, my biggest complaint though was that there was very much stagnant air quality and no ventilation at HC location like I am normally a custom on most other planes."

Nasi lemak was horrible. Plain white rice, tasteless sambal, no cucumber, no kacang, no ikan bilis. And the chicken was colourless and tasteless, tasted like boiled chicken. Entertainment system didn't work at all.

2 delayed flights - hotel layover in a different country- lost baggage.

Silly to not even offer people water for free when they are paying so much for tickets.

You get what you pay for. It’s functional and gets you from point A to B in good comfort. However, food options are limited and cash only, Crew is a hit and miss .. they get your attention if you reach out.

Good leg room ... air conditioning was a bit warm don't Book row 8 ... no windows

They got to the terminal late, with no one on the arriving flight, boarded us late, and left us sitting there for 2 hours before they got us off the ground. They knew they were going to be late, yet they never got an updated flight plan from their head office until long after the flight was supposed to leave. They could have cut the delay in half, of at least let us stay in the terminal. Really just horrible planning.

The worst kind of budget airline. To be honest....the plane was not that bad. Would have been good to have some food choices and some water. What was by far the worse is the passengers/customers that this airline attracts. Coughing and spluttering all over one another with no masks. Just disgusting. Pay for a better carrier and get a better class of passenger.

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Recent return flight deals

3/6Mon
2 stops
30h 40mSYD-MLE
10/6Mon
2 stops
26h 00mMLE-SYD
$993
9/5Thu
1 stop
19h 25mSYD-MLE
19/5Sun
2 stops
41h 35mMLE-SYD
$1,014
6/6Thu
2 stops
28h 25mSYD-MLE
10/6Mon
2 stops
17h 35mMLE-SYD
$1,045
10/7Wed
1 stop
17h 35mSYD-MLE
17/7Wed
1 stop
16h 10mMLE-SYD
$1,054
26/6Wed
1 stopChina Eastern
26h 20mSYD-MLE
30/6Sun
1 stopChina Eastern
35h 55mMLE-SYD
$1,072
4/6Tue
3 stopsChina Eastern
37h 55mSYD-MLE
15/6Sat
3 stopsChina Eastern
29h 30mMLE-SYD
$1,184
28/6Fri
1 stopSriLankan Airlines
21h 05mSYD-MLE
19/7Fri
1 stopSriLankan Airlines
12h 55mMLE-SYD
$1,738
28/6Fri
1 stopSriLankan Airlines
21h 05mSYD-MLE
19/7Fri
2 stopsSriLankan Airlines
32h 00mMLE-SYD
$1,973
1/7Mon
2 stopsEmirates
45h 55mSYD-MLE
19/7Fri
2 stopsEmirates
50h 15mMLE-SYD
$8,439
1/7Mon
1 stopSingapore Airlines
33h 00mSYD-MLE
19/7Fri
1 stopSingapore Airlines
30h 00mMLE-SYD
$11,726

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$387
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